Sanitary dispenser for plastic substances.



No. 662,627. Patented Nov. 27, I900. J. F. C. LUHAN.

SANITARY DISPENSER FOR PLASTIC SUBSTANCES.

(Application filed Mar. 31, 1900.)

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SANITARY DISPENSER FOR PLASTiC SUBSTANCES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 662,627, dated November 27, 1900.

Application filed March 31, 1900. Serial No. 11,008. (No mocleld To all whrmt it" Hung 0017106777 Be it known that I, JOSEPH F. G. LUHAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, borough of Manhattan, in the county and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Sanitary Dispensers for Plastic Substances, which improvements are fully set forth in the follow ing specification and accompanyingdrawings.

1n the drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of a dispenser for plastic substances embodying my said improvements, the same being shown in position for service. Fig. 2 is aview of said dispenser principally in central vertical section. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the parts seen in Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a detail perspective view intended to more clearly illustrate one of the essential featuresof my improved dispenser.

Similar reference numerals denote like parts throughout the several views of the drawings.

This invention relates to improvements in devices of that class commonly known as dispensers, the same being designed for the storage of a commodity or substance and through proper manipulation of a part or parts of the general structure the delivery of such commodity or substance in limited quantities as required by the user.

The object of the invention is to provide a device of the character stated which shall be simple and cheap as regards construction, efficient in operation, and which shall possess palpable advantages over prior analogous structures.

The invention consists in the employment of certain novelly-formed parts, in the novel disposition and arrangement of the various parts, in certain combinations of the latter, and in certain details of construction, all of which will be specifically referred to hereinafter.

Having reference to the accompanying drawings, 2 denotes a reservoir provided at one end with a neck having threads, (here shown as exterior threads,) and 3 denotes a delivery-spout having at its intake end suitable threads, (here shown as interior threads,) the threads of said delivery-spout being designed to engage the threads with which the neck 2 of the reservoir 2 is provided, to the end that said delivery-spout and said reservoir may be detachably joined one with the other. The outlet end of the delivery-spout 3 is provided with a platform at, the function of which will appear hereinafter. The delivery-spout 3 is mounted, by soldering, brazing, or inany other approved manner, upon a supporting medium 5 (here shown as taking the character of a standard) and provided with a threaded spur or element 5, designed to engage the threads of a suitably-threaded opening formed, for example, in a marble slab or the like, such as commonly used in connection with a wz'tshbowl.

It will be understood that the supporting medium 5 may be readily provided with a threaded spur adapted to engage a suitablythreaded opening formed in a vertical slab or the like and this without affecting the upright position of the dispenser, as seen in Fig.

1, and, further, it will be understood that means other than the supporting medium 5, with its spur 5, may be employed for retaining the dispenser in position for service.

The supporting medium 5 is provided with 'a suitable opening,'which is engaged by the ring 6, forming part of flexible connection or chain 6, the latter carrying the stopper 7, designed for closing the outlet of the washbowl 8.

As my improved dispenser is intended chiefly for the storage and delivery of a plastic commodity or substance I prefer to form the reservoir 2 from yielding or pliable ma terial and provide the same at its upper end with a key 9, around the body of which the reservoir may be rolled by properly manipulating said key for the purpose of forcing the contents of said reservoir through the delivery-spout 3 to and upon the platform 4. The

reservoir 2, however, may be formed fronr the potion of the contents of the dispenser there delivered, the same being given by preference a Wave-like form, as shown.

tions;

In operation my improved dispenser is arranged and fixed in position for service substantially as shown in the drawings, and the user desiring a potion of the contents of the dispenser turns the key 9 in the direction to wind the reservoir 2 upon the body of said key, which results in a greater or less potion of the contents of the dispenser being forced to and upon the platform 4, according to the degree to which the key 9 is turned. The user now collects with his hand or finger the potion of the contents of the dispenser appearing upon the plat-form 4.

My improved dispenser has special utility in that it obviates the loss through atmospheric influences of any volatile property or properties comprised in the substance for containing which the dispenser may be used, preserves the normal strength and quality of such substance, and securely houses the substance against contaminating agencies, thus preventing the transmission of contagious or infectious diseases.

From the foregoing description of my improved dispenser it will be seen that the same is particularly well adapted for the purpose for which it is designed, and that as regards the form of any of the parts and details of the construction the same may be modified to some extent without material departure from the principle and spirit of my invention.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Pat-' cut, is

1. A device of the class described, consisting of a reservoir, a delivery-spout detachably joined to said reservoir, a platform fixed to said delivery-spout at its outlet end, and means for producing a pressure within said reservoir, in the direction of said deliveryspout, as herein specified.

2. A device of the class described, consisting of a supporting medium, a reservoir of pliable or yielding material, a key for (301- lapsing said reservoir, and a delivery-spout, the latter mounted on said supporting medium and detachably joined to said reservoir, as herein specified.

3. A device of the class described, consisting of a supporting medium, a reservoir of,

pliable or yielding material, a key for collapsing said reservoir, and a delivery-spout, the latter consisting of detachably-joined sections, one of which sections is fixed to said supporting medium and adapted to be detachably joined to said reservoir, as herein specified.

4. A device of the class described, consisting of a reservoir of pliable or yielding material, a key for collapsing said reservoir, a delivery-spout detachably joined to said reservoir, and a platform fixed to said deliveryspout at its outlet end, as herein specified.

5. A device of the class described, consisting of a reservoir, a delivery-spout detachably joined to said reservoir and composed of detachably-joined sections, a platform fixed to the delivery-spout at its outlet end, and means for producing a pressure within said reservoir in the direction of said deliveryspout, as herein specified.

JOSEPH F. O. LUHAN.

Witnesses:

ALBERT G. TANNER, W. H. RUBY. 

